Umami Burger to open a new San Francisco location

The “Manly Burger” at Umami Burger in San Francisco. Photo: John Storey/The Chronicle

Pizzeria Delfina isn’t the only restaurant creating a link between San Francisco and Palo Alto. Tacolicious opened its Palo Alto spinoff in February, and a month later, Umami Burgeropened its second Bay Area location there, following up on its location in Cow Hollow.

The rapidly growing SoCal-based burger chain is still working on that Oakland branch, but now comes word that founder Adam Fleischman has another Umami Burger in the works for San Francisco — and it’s in the shadow of the ballpark.

This week, Fleischman finalized a lease to take over the former Burger Joint on King Street, which closed at the end of April. The Umami Burger team will remodel the entire restaurant, add a bar, and as Fleischman puts it, “sexify it up.” They hope to open later this year.

Umami Burger: 242 King Streeet, between Third and Fourth, San Francisco